CULTURE AND CONTEXTS: Spain CORE-UA 544: Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:45am SILV 408 Professor: Jordana Mendelson Office: 19 University Place, 4th Floor, 421 Office Hours: Tuesdays, 11-12:30pm and by appointment Email: [email protected] Sections (see Albert for location): Friday: 8-9:15am Andrew Ragni Email: [email protected] Friday: 9:30-10:45am Andrew Ragni Friday: 9:30-10:45am Louisa Raitt Email: [email protected] Friday: 11-12:15pm Louisa Raitt Friday: 12:30-1:45pm Christine Martínez Email: [email protected] Friday: 2-3:15pm Christine Martínez Office hours and locations for TAs: Andrew Ragni: Wednesdays, 1:30-2:30pm, room 317, 19 University Place Louisa Raitt: Thursdays, 1:00-2:00pm, room B-18, 19 University Place Christine Martínez: Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30pm, room B-18, 19 University Place Course Description: What does Spanish culture look like? What are the different materials that Spanish artists and writers have chosen to articulate the often complex understandings they have of themselves, their nation(s), their relation to modernity (its opportunities and challenges), and the broader international community? Rather than assume simplistic answers to these questions, or take for granted a relation between a specific form, be it literary, visual or performative, this class will ask students to critically approach Spanish culture by learning about specific works (and the close analysis of them) and the contexts within which they exist (when they were made, how they were perceived, and how we come to study them today). The time frame for this class is the mid-nineteenth century through the late-twentieth century. Among the different media and materials we will look at are: fiction, poetry, film (fiction and documentary), painting, poster art, photography, performance, and architecture. Readings will be taken from a variety of sources (not just one textbook) and we will try as often as possible to incorporate works of art, films, lectures, and performances that are taking place in our community. The goal of this class is for students to actively engage in an informed analysis of cultural works from Spain in order for each student to better understand and question the relation between cultural forms and questions of national identity, tradition, modernity, and authorship as they relate to the historical moment and location in which they are produced. NYU Classes: We will be posting all readings to NYU Classes, organized by date of lecture for which reading should be prepared. We will also be using the course website for discussion forums and for posting additional resources for the class (assignment guidelines, links to class-related websites, etc). Please be sure to link your email to your NYU account so that you receive notices sent out to the entire class through NYU Classes. Guidelines: Please see attached outline of expected classroom decorum, attendance, and a statement on academic integrity that applies to all NYU classes and has been specially prepared for CORE courses. Please see me if you have questions or concerns about any of these general guidelines. Link: http://cas.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu- as/casCore/documents/AcademicGuidelines.pdf Important guidelines on academic integrity: http://cas.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/casCore/documents/AcademicIntegrity.pdf Accommodations: If you feel you need an accommodation to assist you in learning or fulfilling assignments for this class, please visit the Moses Center for Students with Disabilities (CSD) and then notify Professor Mendelson. Website for CSD: http://www.nyu.edu/life/safety-health-andwellness/students-with- disabilities.html A Note about Readings for Lecture: When preparing reading assignments, you should be ready to analyze and discuss the texts. The reading assignments should be read in their entirety by the date assigned. Because many of the readings are posted digitally you may choose to download and read your texts from your computer, tablet, etc. or print them out; either way be prepared to refer to them specifically. If you bring your computer/tablet to class: Only use your computer for class related work. You may use your computer to read the assigned texts and take notes. You may NOT use your computer to engage in social networking, email correspondence, etc. If we find you using your computer inappropriately you will not be allowed to bring it to class. Be mindful of your classmates and instructors: it is distracting and disrespectful to use computers for anything that is not class related, in the strictest sense. SCHEDULE OF LECTURE TOPICS AND ASSIGNMENT DUE DATES: Sept. 4, Tues: Intro/overview Azucar Moreno, “Bandido”, Eurovision song contest, 1990 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cj9pK38bck I Need Spain: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ68EQSaU4E From Travel Film Archive Old Spain, 1930s: http://www.travelfilmarchive.com/item.php?id=11997&keywords=Spain&startrow=0 Sept. 6, Thurs: Culture and History (Course Objectives and Organization) -Problem of self/other -Spanish identity -Role of history, nation, semi-autonomous communities -Importance of language (more than just textual language: all cultural manifestations in articulation of identity) *Paul Ilie, "Self images in the mirror of Otherness," Iberian Identity: Essays on the Nature of Identity in Portugal and Spain, ed. Richard Herr and John H. R. Polt (U. of California, 1989), 156-180. Sept. 7, Friday: Intro Recitation *Stephanie Sieburth, “What does it mean to study modern Spanish culture?” The Cambridge Companion to Modern Spanish Culture, Ed. David T. Gies (Cambridge U.P., 1991), pp. 11-20. UNIT 1: HISTORY WRIT LARGE (Big events that marked the late 19th to 20th centuries in Spain, and some of the artists and writers who interpreted them) Sept. 11, Tues: 19th Century, Napoleonic Invasion and the War of Independence *William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips, A Concise History of Spain (2010), pp. 206-245. *Janis Tomlinson, “The Artist and the Changing Regimes, 1808-1816,” Goya in the Twilight of Enlightenment (New Haven: Yale UP, 1992), 128-159. *John Cowans, ed., Modern Spain: A Documentary History (2003), selection of historical documents (read and prepare for class discussion). *Consult Goya’s Los caprichos on the website of the New York Public Library: http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-86df-a3d9-e040- e00a18064a99/book?parent=1fb40a70-c610-012f-a4fc-58d385a7bc34#page/1/mode/2up Sept. 13, Thurs: Depictions of the Spanish-American War/The Crisis of 1898 *Lou Charnon-Deutsch, “Cartooning the ‘Splendid Little War’ of 1898,” Hold that Pose (Penn State UP, 2008), 109-144. *For background information on the Spanish-American War: http://www.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/1898/spain.html For class: Choose one of the cartoons that Charnon-Deutsch writes about and be prepared to discuss. Sept. 14, Fri: The 1888 Exposition in Barcelona *Judith Rohrer, “The Universal Exhibition of 1888” in Homage to Barcelona: The City and its Art, 1888-1936 (Arts Council of Great Britain, 1986), pp. 97-99. *Tony Bennet, “Thinking (With) Museums. From Exhibitionary Complex to Governmental Assemblage,” The International Handbook of Museum Studies: Museum Theory, Ed. Andrea Witcomb and Kyle Message (John Wiley & Sons, 2015), pp. 3-20. Sept. 18, Tues: 19th-Century History Paintings and the Disaster of 1898 *Jo Labanyi, “Horror, Spectacle and Nation-formation: Historical Painting in Late-nineteenth century Spain” in Visualizing Spanish Modernity, Ed. Susan Larson and Eva Woods (Oxford: Berg, 2005), pp. 64-80 Sept. 20, Thurs: Spain and Africa (Morocco) *Suan Martin-Márquez, “Power Plays: Reformulations of Spanish Identity and the Colonization of Africa,” Disorientations: Spanish Colonialism in Africa and the Performance of Identity (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), pp. 12-63. Sept. 21, Fri: Photography and Ethnography in Spain *Juan Naranjo, “Photography and Ethnography in Spain,” History of Photography 21:1 (1997): 73-80. Sept. 25, Tues: The Dictatorship of General Miguel Primo de Rivera and the Second Spanish Republic (Exposition of 1929 in Barcelona) *William D. Phillips, Jr. and Carla Rahn Phillips, A Concise History of Spain (2010), pp. 246-280. *Robert A. Davidson, "Observing the City, Mediating the Mountain: Mirador and the 1929 International Exposition of Barcelona," Visualizing Spanish Modernity, pp. 228-243. For class: documentary footage of Exposición Internacional de Barcelona,1929 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfxryxP_MQw (Un paseo por Barcelona, 1929; view especially minutes 3'40" to 8' on the Poble Espanyol) This video clip is in Catalán, but you can still appreciate the moving images of Barcelona around the 1929 Expo, and there is a section with old footage on the Poble Espanyol: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/videos/moments/moments-expo1929- 2febrer/2343567/ Sept. 27, Thurs: Reform, Education, and the Second Republic: the Misiones Pedagógicas *Eugenia Afinoguénova, "Leisure and Agrarian Reform: Liberal Governance in the Traveling Museums of Spanish Misiones Pedagógicas (1931-1933)," Hispanic Review 79:2 (spring 2011), pp. 261-290. Sept. 28, Fri: CLOSE READING EXERCISE *Declaration of the 2nd Republic Oct. 2, Tues: The Spanish Civil War *Frances Lannon, Essential Histories. The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 (Osprey Publishing, 2002), pp. 33-64; 68-76. Consult in preparation for class: www.magazinesandwar.com http://libraries.ucsd.edu/speccoll/visfront/ Oct. 4, Thurs: Franco’s Dictatorship and the Gender Politics of the Sección Feminina *Michael Richards, A Time of Silence: Civil War & the Culture of Repression in Franco's Spain, 1936-45 (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 7-25. *Inbal Ofer, “Historical Models, Contemporary Identities: The Sección Femenina of the Spanish Falange and its Redefinition of the Term 'Femininity',” Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 40, No. 4 (Oct., 2005), pp. 663-674. In class study of women's magazine Medina Oct. 5, Fri: Reviewing Spanish Politics during the 1930s and Understanding the Role of Ephemera *Cary Nelson, "Art in Flames: The Spanish Civil War Poster," Shouts from the Wall (University of Illinois Press, 1996), pp.